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Growing up in south Georgia, I don't remember ever seeing an avocado on the table. Of course, the only ethnic food we ate was "Southern" and that doesn't include tortilla chips, salsa or guacamole.
Today, you would be hard-pressed to find a restaurant that doesn't use avocado in some form.
The most common form, of course, is guacamole, but now sandwiches, salads and even burgers are offered with fresh slices of avocado.
Avocados have a vague history with several regions and countries taking credit for their origin - South America, Central America, Mexico and Peru, to name a few.
Florida and California claim to have first grown avocados in America. Today, California produces 90 percent of the nation's avocados. Major production of avocados didn't occur until the 1970s, when the "Tex-Mex" fad began to spread across the country.
I didn't start eating avocados until a few years ago, and I shied away from them because they were labeled a "bad" choice because of their high fat content.
The first of the year, I decided it was time for me to embrace the fact that I was getting older and needed to make some changes, one of which was to try to improve my diet and make healthier choices.
To my surprise, the avocado kept popping up in healthy recipes.
As it turns out, the fat in avocados is "good" fat and when eaten in moderation and in place of trans-fats, can actually lower your cholesterol.
Avocados also have anti-inflammatory nutrients - and this getting older seems to have everything inflamed!
Working avocados into my diet will take some getting used to. I can't call Mama and ask her or look for ideas in my favorite old cookbooks.
But thankfully, I do live in the age of instant information at my fingertips. Several websites exist with recipes, nutrition, storing and handling information.
The California Avocado Commission website is full of recipes for avocados, from appetizers to dessert, along with all sorts of information on the health benefits of avocados.
I'm not so sure I'm ready to try avocado chocolate pudding or avocado ice cream, but then I never thought I'd be eating avocados for my health, either!
Check out a couple of my favorite avocado recipes so far.
Teri Bell is co-owner of Miss Sophie's Marketplace at the Mighty Eighth in Pooler. Go to sophiesmarketplace.com.
2 firm but ripe avocados
½ cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup (plus a little extra) panko bread crumbs
¾ teaspoon sea salt, divided (in flour, egg wash, panko bread crumbs)
4 cups canola or vegetable oil for frying
1. In a small deep fryer or cast-iron pan, heat oil to 350 degrees F.
2. In three separate shallow bowls or pans, put flour, beaten eggs and panko bread crumbs, in that order. Add ¼ teaspoon sea salt in each.
3. Halve, peel and slice avocado into 10-12 wedges total per avocado.
4. Dredge wedges in flour, egg wash and gently roll them in panko.
5. Deep-fry in batches until golden brown. Drain on a wire rack or on paper towels. Serve immediately with your favorite dipping sauce.
Edamame are green soybeans still in the pod. They are picked and flash frozen to retain their flavor. Edamame are full of nutrients, fiber and protein and when combined with healthy avocado, make a delicious guacamole.
1 firm but ripe avocado, peeled, seeded and diced in chunks
½ cup frozen shelled edamame, thawed
1 clove garlic, finely grated
2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
1 teaspoon jalapeño, chopped
2 tablespoons grated onion
½ teaspoon sea salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 lime, juiced
1. If you own a stone mortar and pestle, this is a great recipe to put it to use. If not, use a food processor with a blade attachment. First put in processor (or mortar) edamame, garlic, salt, cilantro, jalapeño and pepper, and process until finely chopped.
2. Add lime juice and whirl a few more time to incorporate. Add diced avocado and pulse four to five times until well blended.
3. Serve this healthy guacamole in a pretty bowl with warmed tortilla chips. Makes about a cup, but you will need to double the recipe - it's never enough.


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Mary Lou McLaughlin Jones, 104
Mary Lou McLaughlin Jones, 104, was born Aug. 4, 1907, in Salt Lake City, Utah,
the daughter of Willard and Pricilla Rose Talbot McLaughlin. She was the fourth of six children.
The family moved to Pocatello where Mary attended schools.
She married Leonard Elmer Jones on June 19, 1924, in American Falls.Their
marriage was solemnized in The Salt Lake LDS Temple in March 1944.
Three children were born to this union, Mary Louise, Robert Leonard and Thomas Lorenzo.
Mary lived in Pocatello and Thomas and The Dalles, Ore. She enjoyed the outdoors, hiking, camping, bird watching, flowers and traveling. She was active in the LDS Church and served a LDS Mission.
Mary Lou passed away on July 28, 2011, at her daughter's home. She is survived by her children, Mary Louise Wilcox and her husband Russell of The Dalles, Ore.; Robert L. Jones of Billings, Mont.; and Thomas L. Jones and his wife Rita of Wasilla, Alaska; 59 grandchildren, 64 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
A viewing will be conducted Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, at 9 a.m. followed by the funeral service at 10 a.m. at the LDS Church in The Dalles. Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
Burial will be on Aug. 4, 2011, at 11 a.m. at Restlawn Memorial Garden Cemetery in
Donations may be made to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the
Missionary Fund.

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July 8, 2013 (BELOIT, Wis.) --Two people are injured after a house exploded in Beloit.
Emergency crews were called to the scene around 7:40 p.m. Sunday.
Beloit Fire Chief Brad Liggett says a 33-year-old woman was rescued about 20 minutes later and taken to a Janesville hospital with burns. Rescuers pulled a 37-year-old man out around 9:40 p.m. and he was flown to a Madison hospital with second-degree burns
Liggett says firefighters heard the woman screaming for help when they arrived.
Diana and Roger Smith, who live across the street, says they heard a big boom and then saw the walls blown out of their neighbor's home.
The first Beloit police officer on the scene could smell natural gas and immediately began to evacuate nearby homes.
The explosion's cause is under investigation.


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Obama, Romney compete for undecideds, stoke base
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rushing toward their party conventions, the rival presidential campaigns are trying to invigorate core supporters while reaching out to a sliver of undecided voters who harbor doubts about President Barack Obama yet aren't sold on Republican Mitt Romney.
In the past week the campaigns have engaged in a vigorous debate over Medicare, pushing aside the economy and jobs, for the moment. Romney has charged Obama with running a campaign based on hatred, Obama has renewed a fight over Romney's tax returns, and the issue of government spending has blossomed again.
These are the August seeds that candidates are planting with fence-sitting voters even as the campaigns try to get backers excited in time for the conventions. Republicans will gather in Tampa, Fla., in a week, and Democrats will be in Charlotte, N.C., in the first days of September.
Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate gave supporters extra motivation beyond their deep-seated antipathy toward Obama. In calling out Obama as a divisive, angry campaigner, Romney stoked Republicans' dislike of the incumbent and tried to cut into an Obama advantage, his likability even among voters who take a dim view of his policies or his performance as president.
At one point, Romney urged Obama to "take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago." The Obama campaign said Romney's remarks were "unhinged."
And so it went.
Obama dug in on his populist arguments, casting Ryan as the epitome of wrong-headed budget policies that will benefit the rich over the middle class. His campaign challenged Romney to prove his assertion that he had not paid less than 13 percent in taxes over a 10-year period.
"They're asking you to pay more in your taxes, not to reduce the deficit, or grow jobs, or invest in education, but to give another $250,000 tax cut to people making $3 million a year or more," Obama said.
The tax rhetoric is a hit with the Obama faithful, but it is also designed to cast doubt among undecided voters who are seeking a reason to support Romney. Even as Romney tried to sour Obama's personal appeal, the president countered with images of marital affection as he campaigned with his wife, Michelle.
These undecided voters, called "the persuadables" by the campaigns, represent about 6 percent of the electorate, according to recent polls. About 19 percent of voters said there was a chance they could change their minds, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll last month. That's compared with about 10 percent undecided and 25 percent who could still have changed at this point in 2008.
Romney pollster Neil Newhouse says the number of undecided voters is often larger in a presidential election without an incumbent, as in 2008. He said the burden is on Romney to win them over.
"Voters have made up their minds about Barack Obama," he said. "They are undecided about Mitt Romney."
Polls show that Republicans are more enthusiastic about the election than Democrats. Much of the GOP energy comes from a desire to defeat Obama, and some Democrats believe Obama needs to find a way to match that determination.
"One of the challenges is that the Republican base seems more motivated that the Democratic base. That's a big challenge for the president," said Doug Hattaway, a Democratic strategist who was a senior adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008.
At Romney's Boston headquarters, Ryan is seen as a running mate able to energize conservatives who may have doubted Romney's ideological passion, to articulate a fiscal message that resonates with undecided voters and to bring intangible attributes, such as making Romney himself a better candidate.
"They may be playing to their base, but this election is about persuading the middle class, working class Americans," said Obama pollster Joel Benenson.
The Obama camp has promoted Ryan's status as a leading light of the Republican Party to better link Romney to House budget proposals that Ryan wrote and that Obama has been criticizing for two years.
"We think this is a choice that we've been talking about all along," Benenson said.
Obama has begun to hit Romney hard on Medicare, tying his rival to Ryan's budget proposal to overhaul the health care plan for older people. The issue is particularly important in competitive states such as Florida, Iowa and Pennsylvania that have large elderly populations.
Seeking to drive older voters away from Romney, Obama has seized on Ryan's plan to shift future retirees into a system dominated by private insurance plans.
But Romney and Ryan anticipated the Obama reaction and went after Obama's health care overhaul, which includes reductions in Medicare spending of $700 billion over 10 years. While those cuts come from health providers, not from benefits to seniors, Romney and Ryan are still portraying them as harmful to seniors.
The Romney team also says the timing of the Medicare debate benefits them.
"It's actually fortunate for us that it's being litigated in August as opposed to October," Newhouse said. "If it comes up again in October, it's not going to be new information."
The Romney campaign says calls for smaller government resonate with independent votes, particularly undecided suburban women. The GOP used the issue in 2010 when it regained control of the House. Indeed, shifting views among independents on the role of government were a big difference between the 2008 and 2010 electorates, according to exit polls.
In 2008, 43 percent of independents said government should do more to solve problems, while 49 percent said government is "doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals." In 2010, that split was 28 percent do more to 65 percent saying government is overreaching.
But some Republican strategists warn that a debate over government spending has risks. They say undecided voters are all for fiscal discipline if it's linked to economic growth, but they recoil if they perceive spending cuts as austerity measures that would affect them.
"The fiscal battle injected into the national discourse is really going to hinge on who can sell growth and who is selling austerity," said Republican pollster Wes Anderson, who is polling in several congressional districts in states that are competitive in the presidential contest.
CREDIT: JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press


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Rallies held for postal facilities as Senate votes to discuss
White River Junction plant to close after May 15
Last minute tax filers were greeted to protesters calling for Congress to step in regarding the United States Postal Service's plans to the close post offices and sorting centers across the country.
In February, the Postal Service announced plans to consolidate processing centers across the country and close its sorting facility in White River Junction.
The agency will move its mail processing center's operations to Manchester, N.H. and Burlington.
Protesters also held rallies at postal facilities in Burlington and Montpelier.
Tuesday's rallies came as the U.S. Senate voted 74-22 to inject itself into the post office closures.
The motion to cut off a filibuster effectively allows senators to continue discussion of the bill, amend it, and possibly proceed to a vote.
Rural post offices and processing centers could close as soon as May 15, the agency said.
"If they close, they're required by our contract to find us another job," said Wayne Martin, Jr., the president of the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union. "However, we don't know what their plans are."
The contract between the Postal Service and the APWU requires the service find a new job for a worker within 50 miles of where he or she lives. Both Burlington and Manchester fall outside of that guideline.
Tuesday's rally was a continued effort to bring awareness to the closures affecting the Postal Service, Martin said.
There are about 245 employees at the facility, Martin said. The agency previously said a closure would result in a net loss of 51 jobs.
Contractors who work through the facility would also lose their jobs, a rally attendee noted.
"I think we need to put pressure on Congress to act," said Lorraine Clough, an employee at the facility. "They just keep putting it off, and if they keep doing that they're going to continue to keep closing plants."
"Everybody gets mail every day," said Robert Spottswood, a supporter. "It's one of the few things that we have left in common anymore."
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., led a group of senators who wanted to strengthen the bill titled the 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2012.
"We have a very long way to go if we're going to say rural post offices, mail processing plants and tens of thousands of jobs," Sanders said in an exclusive interview to NewsChannel 5 after the vote.
Senators, including Sanders, are working on an amendment that would among other things protect rural post offices from closure.
The Postal Service would have to take into account the geography, population, transportation, effects of inclement weather and the extent of Internet, broadband and cellphone access, before closing down a post office, a spokesman for Sanders said.
First Class mail volume has decreased by 25 percent since 2006, the agency said, as more people turn to e-mail and electronic messaging, including payments.
"There are many people who live in rural Vermont, some parts non-rural, who don't even have high speed internet, who don't have access to computers, who don't even know how to use a computer," said Norwich, Vt., town lister Liz Blum. "They don't pay their bills online."
The amendment would also protect overnight delivery, but for a smaller area than today's standard, and include language requiring first class mail be delivered within three days. It would also ban the Postal Service from ending Saturday delivery and only allow it as a last resort to save money.
If the amendment and bill pass, the Postal Service would have to keep open 125 processing centers on its closure list, a spokesman for Sanders said.
Sanders and others members of Congress have said the agency is bankrupting itself through a congressionally mandated retirement fund. The agency must pay $5.5 billion a year in pre-payments for future retirement and health benefits.
The amendment would pay the service back in overpayments.
"At the end of the day, what we want to do is create a situation where the Postal Service can bring in substantially more revenue," Sanders said. "Not have to pay off $5.5 billion every single year for future employee health benefits, which many of us think is no longer necessary, and in the process, give the post office the ability to bring in more revenue."
Some of those revenue generators are secure e-mail service, selling packaging and copies, and being able to send items currently prohibited, like beer and wine, Sanders said. A commission would be created to think of more ways.
"There's a lot that the postal service can be doing that can bring in more revenue and protect jobs," Sanders said.
If the processing plant in White River Junction closes, the post office part of the building -- where you can send mail and buy stamps -- would remain open.


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Searchers recover body of Blackfoot man from Snake River
It was a tragic ending to a long day of searching along the Snake River, near Wadworth Island west of Blackfoot, as searchers recovered the body of Vaughn Kepler, 59, of Blackfoot early Thursday evening.
Bingham County Sheriff Dave Johnson said Kepler was reported missing by his family late Wednesday night. Kepler, who reportedly lives near Wadsworth Island, may have gone fishing late in the evening. Neighbors in the area say that when Kepler went missing, family members were were able to account for nearly all of his personal belongings except for his waders and a fishing pole, which led them to believe he had gone to the river.
While it was too dark to begin the search Wednesday night, Johnson said the sheriff's department and Bingham County Search and Rescue started searching the river at the crack of dawn on Thursday, eventually retrieving Kepler's body downstream from the search area around 4:30 p.m.
The investigation into exactly what happened is ongoing.


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This project was reported and written by Akilah Johnson, Meghan E. Irons, Maria Cramer, Jenna Russell, and Andrew Ryan
Theresa Johnson'S workday is over, and her sister is at Marshall Elementary to pick her up. Theresa jumps in the driver's seat of her sister's white Camry — she always drives when they're together.
They swing by Dunkin' Donuts on the way home, and Theresa gets her usual, a hot medium hazelnut, despite the July heat.
Then they head toward home. As they drive up a side street lined with colorful Victorian homes, a police cruiser whizzes past. Then another, and another, and another.
"Where are they going?" she remembers thinking.
She speeds up, trying to keep pace. They turn toward her street. She tries to turn, too, but the light turns red. She's stuck waiting for 15 seconds. Panicking.
What if they're headed to her house? What if something happened to Easy? What if the police have him in handcuffs? What if someone shot him, stabbed him, beat him up?
What if?
Sean and Easy have called her while hiding in alleyways, chased by enemies. Both have come home bloody. And too many young men are being shot in the streets — four just this month in Bowdoin-Geneva, two just blocks from her childhood home.
The light turns green. And she speeds off, pulling in front of her gray house a minute later.
Nothing. No police cars.
Still, Theresa worries, walking to her second-floor apartment, thinking: "I gotta call and check on Easy." There's just too much crime for her not to call at the sound of sirens, or the sight of flashing lights.
But when she opens the door, Easy is there and she exhales.
It's this same fear-and-relief cycle that causes Theresa to check the living room first thing every morning to make sure Easy and his lean 6-foot frame are stretched on the couch. He usually is.
But lately, with her daughter, Jalanae, away at summer camp, her anxiety, usually more of a murmur, has spilled over.
"People tell me I worry too much," she says. "But you never know. I've just heard too many stories of mothers thinking everything's OK."
The apartment, located a neighborhood away, is a bare box: stark walls, inexpensive couch, clinically clean, like the waiting room of a dentist's office. A neatly dressed man standing uncertainly on the new carpet has tears in his eyes. It's 1 p.m., and he's sober for now.
Susan Young, the neighborhood worker from the Bowdoin Street Health Center, is bustling around him, cheerful and solicitous, poking her head in the plain bedroom, the bathroom with a toothbrush laid out, still in its wrapper. The apartment is now Tony's to live in. She'd helped find this place for him, to get him off the street.
"Tony, what are you going to do with all this?" she exclaims. Then, seeing the tears, she says gently, "God is good."
Tony is one of a dozen and a half alcoholics who spend most of their time drinking nips and pints at a patch of sidewalk on Olney Street they call "the office." They've been there for years. Susan has made it a mission to find places for them to live and, ultimately, get them off alcohol.
Like all her missions in the neighborhood, she thinks of it as an act of love. She grew up on the northern edge of Bowdoin-Geneva, on Stanley Street near Columbia Road, the youngest of 12 children. She went to church at St. Peter — she still crosses herself when she passes by — and recalls the lessons of her parents: "Be good to people and get your blessings."
Before coming here, she was a social worker and later worked at an alternative high school in Roxbury. Starting work at the health center three years ago, she began gathering in a drawer programs from the funerals of people in the neighborhood killed by violence. She discovered she felt something powerful inside when she sat with the families, crushed with grief, and was able to provide comfort.
Visiting the alcoholics at "the office" quickly became part of her routine. She knew them by name. She counseled and chastised, and they tried to please her. In the dead of winter last year, she discovered Tony living with a man called Slim in an abandoned house with a hand-lettered sign out front, "Nothing 2 Steal."
Tony's face was covered with growths and he had a maggot-infested wound on his foot. She got both of them into a homeless shelter and spent the next six months making sure they got to doctor appointments, obtaining copies of their birth certificates, applying for ID cards and health insurance.
Finding homes for them had required a lot of paperwork and time on the phone. It will all amount to little if she can't keep them off booze. She speaks to Tony sternly.
"I don't want people from Bowdoin Street up here," she says. "When I see you on the street, I want you clean. No alcohol."
"I know," he says, and swears he'll enroll in a program for his drinking.
"As quick as you got this, you can lose it."
"I won't let that happen," he says.
In an hour, Tony is back at the office with the other drinkers.
One night a few days later, Tony's friend, Slim, was waiting for her on the sidewalk outside her office. She'd found him housing in May, a room in a boarding house that comes with conditions — that he take part in an antialcohol program and that he not drink.
Tonight, he smells heavily of liquor. "I want out of the program," he says.
It's been a long day already. She is tired and at 6 a.m. must report to her second job in the paint department at Lowe's. But this is how it goes. She girds for the hours she may need to spend with him to straighten out his situation and replies, "You can't."
'Nate, when you gonna let me paint the hallway, man?" Phil is drunk and sweating in the fierce heat on Nate Davis's porch on Norton Street.
Big Nate shoots him a look and keeps talking to the other guys who are there. The afternoon sun is a blaze of white glare. People are on porches all around, and there is a listless buzz on the block.
On Nate's porch there is some relief in the shade from the big tree in the side yard and in the cold beer. People come and go, most of them friends from the old days, a few of them heavy drinkers. It's a crowd that started coming around more often after Nate's son Nicholas died. Nate has taken comfort in their presence, especially with his other son, Little Nate, now in prison.
Today, there's Bill, a fast talker who spins tall tales about the corporations he runs and the fortunes he's won in Vegas, another named Ricky, and a short man who sits quietly, with empty, bloodshot eyes. Phil is just belligerent. He's been drinking hard and needling Nate all afternoon to give him a job for a few dollars. Nate doesn't have money to hand out jobs anymore. He doesn't have a job himself. It chafes at him.
Since the trial in his son's murder, he can't seem to find his footing. He misses his boys; the collect calls from Little Nate come sporadically now. He spends most days hunting online for jobs and sending out resumes. He quit Home Depot in May to be at the trial. He calls a job center that promised to help, but his case worker keeps putting him off. The certificate he got for graduating a center's computer training course seems, for the moment, worthless. Bill collectors are calling. The cable was shut off. Recently, he searched his house and yard for scrap metal to cash in. It had given him, for a few hours, a sense of purpose.
Phil takes another swig of beer and leans in again, glassy-eyed and insistent. "Nate, when you gonna let me paint it?
Nate turns on Phil and snaps. "Get up off my porch."
"Nate, man," Phil says, not moving, "when are you going to get some money?"
Nate moves toward him suddenly, and Phil scampers away. But then he comes back, cackling and taunting, and follows Nate off the porch when Nate stomps away to his truck.
Phil just keeps at it. He follows Nate to his truck, then snatches a beer from him and runs up the street, laughing. All at once, Nate is furious as he starts up the truck. He careens around the block, spots Phil, and jumps out to chase him. Nate throws a beer bottle and a plastic water jug, but the little man is too fast.
Susan happens to come around the corner and, seeing the commotion, runs toward them, shouts for them to stop. Nate drives off again, and Susan runs after Phil, finally cornering him. "Come on, you all are brothers," she tells him. Then Nate returns in the truck, looking calmer, and gets out.
"Hey, Phil," Nate says, sheepishly. "Come here. I ain't gonna touch you."
As they come together, Nate draws back his fist and crashes it into Phil's face. Susan screams. A set of dentures falls from Phil's mouth and clatters on the pavement.
After a short stunned pause, Phil picks up his dentures and runs away, shouting back over his shoulder. "I still got love for you, man."
Nate says later that the man deserved what he got, but he seems astonished by his fury and the old troubled self it unleashed.
ON THE FRONT PORCH of a neatly kept white house on Hamilton Street, Susan and Father Richard "Doc" Conway and a crime watch coordinator from the police department talk to a man who has opened the door only enough to see out. Hamilton, a long street that pierces deep into the neighborhood, has had its share of gunfire over the years. Two weeks ago, two residents of the street were shot and killed in the South End. Police say the shooting wasn't gang-related, but Susan and Doc think it might help galvanize residents to band together against crime. They've been knocking on doors all afternoon, delivering their pitch.
They ask the man about crime on the street and talk about efforts to do something about it. They try to sound friendly, nonthreatening. Doc has his collar on. Susan wears her health center badge. The man keeps his hand on the doorknob, ready to shut the door, but he keeps listening. Dogs bark inside. Two children cling to his legs.
They extract a flier from a stack, asking if he would come to a meeting tomorrow night. He takes the flier. "I don't see what good it will do," the crime watch coordinator recalls him saying. "Nothing's going to change."
He heaves the door shut, and they move up the block and try again at another house. This is part of the city's effort this summer, and officials enlisted Susan and Doc and others who work closely with residents to organize groups that would take a more active role tamping down neighborhood crime. If nothing else, residents would get to know one another. But also, according to the city's theory, they would begin to feel empowered to act together against gangs.
Susan knows it's not quite that simple. She's knocked on doors all over the neighborhood. People have been living with gunfire for decades. Efforts to stop it come and go. Meetings come and go. Few seem to see the point of another one.
Some don't even notice the violence, or say they don't. Already today, Susan's group has come across a middle-aged man who shook his head absently — Violence? Not a big issue — and an elderly resident who said there really aren't any problems around here. Three weeks earlier, a man was shot in the leg on Hamilton Street just before 11 p.m. on a Sunday night.
Susan and Doc and the woman from the police department keep at it, on porch after porch until they've covered the street. And despite resistance, enough people have seemed enthusiastic to make them feel upbeat.
The next day at 5:30 p.m., Susan comes back to Hamilton, to a house where the owner agreed to host the meeting. He is a tall, slender man who has lived on the street for 37 years. They get stacks of green and white plastic chairs and arrange them on the blacktop in front of the house.
Susan sits to wait, wrapping herself in a blanket she'd brought from the car. It's overcast and cool. After a time, officials trickle in — someone from the mayor's office, the crime watch organizer, a block captain. But no other residents come.
"I told everybody," the host says. "I can't make them come."
Susan wonders if it would have been different if they had food, and the others agree that food helps to draw a crowd. She thinks about how busy people are, and if she should have held the meeting later, to give them time to come home from work.
An uncertain rain begins to spatter irregularly on the blacktop.
"It gets sickening," Susan says. "I get tired of it. I get tired of all the work."
Jhana Senxian is making progress in the community garden on Coleman Street. The plots of vegetables she planted with her neighbors are tidy and full. The problem is in her pine-shaded backyard, where rows of leftover plants are languishing.
The seedlings were donated last month by local farms — the first step in her quest to make the garden a neighborhood jewel. She has already crammed thousands into the garden, a modest space tucked away behind a tall black fence. Hundreds more, still piled in her backyard, won't fit.
It is time to give away the excess. So Jhana calls her neighbors to the garden for a meeting. She tells them she has herbs and vegetables for them to grow, and plastic bins to plant them in, right in their front yards.
The street is soon abuzz, and a dozen people descend to claim pots of basil, parsley, chard, and collards. Under cloudy midday skies, neighbors are outside planting, painting, trimming hedges. One shows off his bag of organic compost. Jhana feels things knitting together.
They are with her, these people she barely knew in the spring, working to address nagging problems on the street. There is less trash strewn about these days. They have asked the city to bait the sewers, to banish the rats.
The vegetables they are planting in their yards don't add up to the ambitious street farm she once envisioned. But this sharing of the bounty may be close enough.
Jhana turns to her assistant, who is toting armfuls of seedlings to neighbors' front yards. Kaori Tate is only 10, but she craves responsibility.
Jhana had not known, back in the spring, which of her neighbors might join her in the garden. Most of them have jobs, or kids, or both. In summers past, she might have called on Ella Pierce, a neighbor who had been devoted to the garden. But Ella, already frail, has taken a bad fall. She sits in a hospital across the city, pining to return to the place she loves most in the world.
But help for Jhana has come from unexpected places.
Kaori finished fifth grade in the spring. Headed off to middle school in September, she is nonchalant about the big transition ahead. She trains with a track team in Cambridge, her father driving her to practice several nights a week. On top of the bureau in her pink-painted bedroom, she is running out of room for her shiny trophies.
She is a kid, often playful and silly, but the sense of duty Jhana sees in her goes deep. Her parents have sacrificed so she can run: buying her track shoes, traveling to meets. "That's why I have to be hard on myself," says Kaori. "I don't like to disappoint them."
In the garden, Kaori is learning from Jhana. She buries her head in the basil, breathing in the pungent smell. She tears wrinkled leaves off the mint plants and chews them. She is 10, and she can be pushy, urging a reluctant friend to try one.
"Why are you scared?" she demands. "Don't you chew mint gum?"
Jhana has come to count on Kaori. And the girl is thriving in her role. As her neighbors claim plants from Jhana's backyard, Kaori zips here and there, making deliveries.
The garden has come into fullness now, in late July. The peaches, still green, weigh down the branches in the trees. The grapes in the arbor, once pea-sized, are fattening. The corn is waist-high. Black and orange butterflies circle lazily.
Jhana grabs a pen and starts a list: Who is cooking for the August garden party?
Kaori's father promises to make his famous fried chicken. A woman who used to be homeless — shyly attending her first street meeting — signs on to make ribs. Jhana smiles, thrilled to see her join in. Jhana has spent weeks coaxing her to come, assuring her she would be welcome. It's the kind of little triumph that keeps Jhana going.
She has also recruited Floyd, and that helps hold things together.
Floyd lives next door to the garden, but he shuttles constantly up and down the sidewalk on both sides of Coleman Street. He doesn't just walk, he says with a laugh, he sashays — mediating disputes, dispensing advice to the lovelorn.
Floyd relishes his role on the street, but some days his bell rings constantly. "This one wants a cup of sugar; that one wants information," he complains. Sometimes he just wants an hour of peace, to wash his floors and apply his papaya facial.
This summer, Floyd says, he's lonely. His longtime boyfriend is in jail.
It only made sense for Jhana to get him a clipboard and put him to work. Chatty and charming, he is a natural: knocking on doors, passing out fliers, talking to people. He is in charge of food for the garden party.
Jhana calls over the woman who used to be homeless. The garden is crowded, but Jhana makes room. Here, she says: a plot for you, where you can grow plants of your own.
GRILLS ARE GOING, sound equipment is being put together. Tal is in a white doo-rag, hauling coolers full of food and barking orders to friends who are helping him set up. It is the day of Tal's "Norton Street Peace Cookout," the block party that Doc and Susan hope will give him the confidence to pursue another life. It's also an event that makes cops nervous. Tal is a known target of violence; the event seems, literally, an invitation for trouble. Police have positioned a blue barricade at the mouth of the street, and two officers are guarding it. An officer who arrested Tal on two different occasions stands sentry at a driveway where all the activity is. Back then, the officer and Tal hated each other. After one arrest, Tal told the officer he'd be waiting for him one night when the officer least expected it. But that was a long time ago. "He's a totally different person now," the officer says. "I tell him that all the time."
In an attempt to avoid trouble at today's party, Tal took precautions. The fliers he handed out and taped to lampposts along the street pointedly did not mention his name. He agreed with police that officers should be there and that the street be blocked to car traffic, just in case rivals had an idea of driving by.
He went door to door, inviting neighbors to the cookout and asking them to bring food. He reassured those scared of what a party on Norton Street might bring.
He needed some of the same reassurance. The party would be held in the same driveway where his cousin was killed the year before on July 4.
Some of his friends, considered gang members by the police, are there. Tal already has told them there is to be no drinking.
It takes a while for people to come out, but by late afternoon, a small crowd gathered in groups. Doc, who brought the grill, wanders among them, and Susan helps set up food. Tal shakes hands, hugs women, bends down to talk to children and shows them the face-painting table. He urges tentative neighbors to dig into the burgers.
"I want you all to eat!" he shouts, smiling. "Don't be shy!"
Big Nate and Trina come sit on their porch, watching. In a minute, Nate gets up. Too many people are just standing around. He walks off the porch, blurts out, "Let's get this party started," and walks slowly to a microphone, where he breaks into a broad smile.
"What we want to do is have a little dance contest," he booms. Soon just about everyone is dancing and carrying on. Children writhe wildly. Nate sways and Doc says he seems like a different man. Trina smiles.
Tal waves his arms in the air, singing along to the Black Eyed Peas. He rushes over to Doc, who stands with his arms folded, and grabs the thin man by the shoulders.
"Dance! Dance! Dance!" he yells, as Doc laughs, arms still folded.
A police sergeant who has known Tal since he was 12 comes by.
"He pulled it off," he says.
A short time later, Nate comes back to the microphone. "I want to thank everyone for coming out today," he says. "I want everyone to enjoy themselves, but most of all I'd like everyone to take just a moment and think about loved ones that are not here right now—"
Tal waves his arms and quiets the crowd. There isn't a sound for 10 seconds, and then Nate speaks again.
"Now I just want everybody to look around, look at the kids and stuff. And just remember that we still have young ones out and still have to raise them. We are neighbors. We down here, we been watching our kids grow. As I look around, I see a lot of kids that I've seen and watched grow—"
He is still for a moment, looks out at the people watching him. Words can't carry what he wants to say — about a lost son, about what it means to be in the company of people having a good time on a Saturday afternoon, about the possibility they might help one another.
"I don't know — most of all, I just want you all to have a good time. Everybody just be free, you know? Don't be shy about nothing."
A few days later, Doc and Susan get word that a job has come through for Tal. It's a city job, on a cleaning crew in the parks department. It pays $530 a week. It's only an eight-week gig, but Tal is ecstatic.
On his first day, he wakes up at 5 a.m. and walks the three miles to Franklin Park. He is a half-hour early.
It's early August. Theresa's house has returned to full capacity with Jalanae home from summer camp, and Theresa's granddaughter Trinity spending nights again. And today, Theresa is in full Nonnie mode, caring for the sick 3-year-old, Sean's daughter.
Theresa is running errands with her mother's gold SUV, and Trinity, usually a ball of hair beads in motion, sits in the back seat, eyes droopy from Benadryl.
She's on her way to a Wendy's several miles away to grab her granddaughter an afternoon snack and, eventually, to purchase a money order for Sean, who needs it so he can buy things at the jail commissary. A cup of noodles, a pack of soup, chili, tuna, Kool-Aid, all cost a dollar a pop.
The cellphone rings.
It's Tricia, Trinity's mother, who just got off work and is in front of Theresa's house. So Theresa makes a detour to pick her up. Tricia jumps in, sidling up to her daughter in the back seat.
"Hey, baby!" Tricia says, bending over to kiss her daughter's forehead.
"She destroyed my room," Theresa says. The 3-year-old poured a box of Epsom salt on the floor. She found Easy's condoms stashed in a Life Savers box and asked for one, thinking it was candy.
"She loves her uncle, though," Tricia says. "When no one can handle her, Easy can."
"Yeah. Well, I told him not to come back to my house," Theresa says. "He had an appointment with his probation officer, and he said he wasn't going. He was going to call. I said, 'No, dude. Here's the deal: You're off probation on the 24th. I don't want you coming back into my house until the 24th.' "
Easy was placed on probation about 1½ years ago for assault and battery on a police officer. He was accused of stealing a woman's wallet in 2009, and when police approached, his arrest report said, Easy "became very irate."
They pick up food from the drive-through and come home. Theresa settles at the glass kitchen table, Tricia in the living room on the phone, and Trinity runs up and down the hallway.
Theresa is midsentence when the back door opens and Easy takes a step halfway through. Theresa jumps up, heaves at the door with her shoulder to keep him out.
"Did you go see your probation officer?" Theresa barks, pushing her weight against the door.
"Yeah, mom," he says through the crack.
Defiant yet dependent, that's Easy, who will ask for a ride to get a haircut but not to see his probation officer. He will do just about anything the women in his family ask, except when it concerns him — getting a job, going back to school, leaving the street life.
"You can't come in!" Theresa says.
"Mom, I went to see my PO."
She lets him in, though no one really ever thought she wouldn't. Putting him out goes against everything her children know to be true about her.
Easy asks his mother for "a square," then returns to the back porch to smoke the cigarette. Theresa steps out to join him. The neighbor's son is detailing his parents' black Toyota Avalon, making sure the rims sparkle and the windows are streak-free, inside and out.
"I don't even know how to change a tire," Easy says in between drags of the menthol-flavored tobacco, a theater mask tattoo visible on his right forearm. "I just don't like to do anything. I'm lazy. Right, ma?"
"Yup. You know I'm a co-sign on that," Theresa says.
At 6:20 p.m., the time has come to go to bring the money for Sean to the prison.
"Let's make this move before this money does not make it to your son, and I get cussed out," Tricia says.
Sean calls from jail every day. He calls Theresa. He calls Tricia.
He was put in jail for violating his probation but remains there because of an open case in Quincy.
Last year on Christmas Eve morning, Sean and two friends were riding on the Walter Hannon Parkway when police say one of them started shooting out of the car window. Directly in front of them was an off-duty Quincy police officer. He stopped when he heard the shots.
Sean is torn. He doesn't know whether to take the charge or fight the case. This is what he does know: He hates jail, but on the streets snitching is punishable by death. He misses his family. He misses his freedom.
If only his intuition had won, if only he had gone home.
If only.
"I wish I never got involved."
Sean was a boy when he started repping his 'hood, the Franklin Field housing complex. Now, he's a man trying to find his way.
He started going to church in jail. At first, it was just to get out of his cell and kick it with "other dudes that's from my 'hood."
Then, things changed. He got what the pastor was saying. He connected. "Sometimes, I be in church and when the dude be talking I'm like, I swear, I feel like he's talking to me."
He started praying. Every night, he prayed.
Workers are setting up tables and inflating balloons in the Rev. James K. Allen Park, a triangle of grass and trees criss-crossed with walkways.
The city is putting on another of its resource fairs. They've been having them all summer — tables with balloons and banners and advice on things like jobs and health. Today, it's personal finance.
A few people are filling plates at a table with aluminum trays of ribs and chicken.
But there is a problem. A park bench near the fair is soaked with blood.
The night before, a man in his 20s was shot in the chest and legs and was found there slumped over.
Workers at the fair debate what to do. Finally, someone notifies City Hall, and soon a fire truck arrives from the station down the road and pulls up on the sidewalk.
Firefighters hop out and attach a hose. They blast the bench for a few minutes and then, with a wave to the officials in charge, pack up and head back to the station.
Sometimes, it just feels like too much. Sometimes, it is too much. Theresa needs to relax.
Her cousin has dragged her out of the house every weekend this August. And she needs the break.
The fast percussion beats of soca and reggae carry her away. She's able to leave her problems at the door, step on the dance floor, and jump and wave until the lights come on.
So she is disappointed the night before Boston's West Indian Carnival when she steps inside Prince Hall auditorium for a precarnival party and only 10 people are there. It's a stark contrast to the phalanx of feathers, sequins, and beads that will pulse through the streets of Roxbury and Dorchester tomorrow.
Most people, she and her cousin surmise, are at the Machel Montano concert, which is where Theresa would prefer to be, but not at $50 a ticket. So here they are, sitting at what looks like a poorly attended junior high prom. Round tables line an empty dance floor. A photographer sits in the corner with a backdrop of faux green rolling hills and a black Rolls-Royce.
The dance floor is still empty just after midnight, and the photographer starts packing up.
"We have to go to an after-party," Theresa screams to her cousin, sipping pineapple juice and Grand Marnier as her black and silver sequin shirt sparkles in the low light.
If they stay out long enough, they'll go to j'ouvert — pre-parade carnival festivities that begin at dawn — then to the parade, where her cousin will transform into a siren, her costume made mostly of blue and red rhinestones and feathers.
Just then, Chris Brown's "Strip" comes on. "Take it off. I wanna love you."
Theresa jumps up and moves.
JHANA SENXIAN KNEELS beneath the locust trees on Coleman Street. Since the spring, when she decided to revive the garden on the street, she has dreamed of planting flowers along these sidewalks.
It is the middle of August and finally, she is ready.
Two young men, her employees, kneel beside her, hollowing out space in the dirt around the trees. They lift floppy ferns and hostas and settle them gently into the earth. Moving slowly down the street from tree to tree, they plant eggplant, Russian sage, exotic-looking green and pink caladium.
The planting is not exactly as Jhana imagined it. There wasn't time to grow flowers in the garden, so they use some vegetables and store-bought flowers. Next spring they will plant seeds, filling a swath of new flower beds in the garden. Maybe then the sidewalk planting will expand into the neighborhood.
They kneel in front of another house. A woman is outside, talking on her phone; she pauses to compliment Jhana on her progress.
"We're getting there," Jhana says in measured tones.
It is a phrase she uses often these days, a way of acknowledging how far they have to go.
The headlights on Big Nate's truck are a shock to the darkness of the cemetery. He slows along the ragged pavement of a winding lane and parks. Switching off the engine and the lights, darkness closes around. He has brought a friend, and they slip out of the truck.
Nate comes here sometimes when he can't sleep and wakes to pace. He comes and sits by his son's grave. Tonight he's here because Little Nate called from prison the night before. His son had told him that he had heard a Homes Ave. gang member talking triumphantly about Nicholas's murder and bragging about what they would do to his grave — desecrate it, piss on it. Little Nate fought the gang member and ended up in solitary once again.
Big Nate, seized with fury and panic about what might happen to the grave, racked his mind about what to do. He went to the store and bought solar garden lights. It was the only protection he could think of.
He now walks the rows of headstones, the friend following behind, and finds Nicholas's near an iron fence. He takes one of the solar lights his friend holds out for him and presses the stake into the ground on one side of the gravestone. He moves to the other side and tries with the second light, but the ground is too hard. He kneels to use his weight and stays on one knee after it is firmly in place, as if in prayer. The lights cast a small blurred radius of brightness.
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It's hard for us to remember sometimes that even our most acclaimed directors have had their share of flops, failures and misfires. Often they come as a result of returning to a rich well once too often: Coppola made the mistake with The Godfather Part III, and Steven Spielberg's last Indiana Jones movie—well, let's just mention that the climax involves a dozen crystal skeletons and a giant flying saucer, and call it a day.
But sometimes a film just falls flat for reasons that, in hindsight, aren't so obvious—and sometimes those interesting failures can lead to new successes. Such is the case with Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Despite winning four Academy Awards, the 1975 period film proved to be less successful with audiences—the stately pace of its storytelling (it ran to just over three hours) and its 18th-century setting just didn't seem to connect with the crowds of the day. Today, it's pegged as the classic it has always been, but in the 1970s, it was enough of a disappointment that Kubrick decided to go in a different direction when he went to make his next film. And so it was that The Shining was born.
Based on Stephen King's runaway hit, Kubrick's version of The Shining, playing this Tuesday at Amherst Cinema, became a cultural phenomenon. (It's a rare film that can co-opt Carson's Tonight Show introduction so effectively that it still resonates 30-plus years later.) In it, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) finds work as a winter caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel, hoping that the emptied-out inn will provide him the peace he needs to get some writing done. Along for the working vacation are his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny, whose psychic visions—his "shining"—hint that the family is not as alone as they might believe.
It's a great chiller of a movie, but if you're going to catch it on the big screen, think about watching Barry Lyndon a night or two before. There's no reason we should leave film festivals to the theaters, and seeing how Kubrick moves from one genre to another is an eye-opening exercise that, in the end, can make the experience of both films richer.
For a richer experience still, Amherst is also screening Room 237, director Rodney Ascher's incisive and provocative look at Kubrick's classic. Focused more on the considerable cult following the film has built up, Ascher's film is a dizzying deconstruction of the supposed "secret messages" of The Shining—everything from indictments of genocide to an admission that Kubrick helped the government fake the Apollo moon landing. It may all sound a bit nutty (especially if you aren't the type who watches the same film dozens of times), but it's an entertaining look at a cultural touchstone.
Also this week: The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival wraps up its eighth annual series with two screenings on Thursday, April 18. Over at Amherst College, Kaddish For a Friend screens at Stirn Auditorium at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Set in a run-down tenement in contemporary Berlin, Leo Khasin's 2011 film is the story of a Palestinian youth and a Russian-Jewish WWII veteran whose initial wariness gives way to a burgeoning friendship.
And that night at Greenfield's Garden Cinema, Paris-Manhattan tells the tale of Alice, a single woman whose parents are anxious to see her married off. Instead, she finds happiness by immersing herself in the world of Woody Allen, even going so far as to prescribe the director's DVDs to customers at the family pharmacy. When she meets Victor, it seems as though both Alice and her parents might finally get the ending they're after. The film begins at 7 p.m., but you can cap off the 2013 PVJFF with a "pre-show nosh" at the theater beginning at 6:30 p.m.•
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William from Denver, CO
Reviewer is Researching this school. Reviewer has been to campus.
1 of 7
Categories Comments What to do for fun
I found it very easy to talk with all of the other Summer Academy students. I discovered that I love tether ball. The hiking on campus is beautiful.
Dorm Life
I loved the individual rooms with a shared common area. The view out my window was spectacular.
Academic Rigor
I have never been in such an intellectually challenging environment. I felt very enthusiastic about each seminar.
In three sentences
If you are interested in reading primary texts and discussing issues in depth St. John's can't be beat. I loved y experience at the Summer Academy session, Courage and the Soul. I enjoyed the reading, found the discussions stimulating and connected with every single student which is rare.
Andrew from Angel Fire, NM
Reviewer is Researching this school. Reviewer has been to campus.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 2 of 7
Categories Comments Bang for the buck
They give good packages for your demonstrated need.
In three sentences
An intellectual school filled with bright philosopher's. If you like books and seminaring, then this is for you. Although, it is a set curriculum.
Prospective High School Student
Reviewer is Researching this school. Reviewer has not been to campus.
3 of 7
Categories Comments Campus Safety
Campus is safe. People feel at ease and comfortable leaving items out unattended. Campus security is present and competent. I haven't heard any complaints. People feel safe here.
Greek Life
There is no Greek Life as in sororities and fraternities. It's not really in the spirit of the community and the undergraduate class itself only have around 400 students, so it would be a bit strange. However the first year the freshmen all study the Ancient Greeks. Plato, Euclid, Aristotle, Socrates... Now that's some Greek Life!
Clubs and Activities
Rowing is popular but there are plenty of other clubs and sports to choose from. If you want to start your own club, this is also a possibility. They are however more keen on academics than say, football of course.
Great for these types of students
Inquisitive, intelligent, readers, interested, thinkers, philosophers
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Croquet and ultimate frisbee are the sports of St. Johns. There are other of course but Croquet is played there a lot for some reason. Every year there is a huge croquet match between the neighboring Naval academy and St. Johns. St. Johns has never lost of course because the Naval academy doesn't practice the sport. Another interesting thing: the unofficial mascot is a platypus. They sell little platypuses at the book store.
Bang for the buck
Read up on the list of suggested items to bring for your dorm. They warn to not buy all your books at once as they're all available at the book store and you'll need to have more info on what translation would be best to use. Coordinate with your roommate so you don't bring the same things. Basic bang for the buck advice.
What to do for fun
Read. Think. Discuss. That's what St. Johns is about. Visit the store, it's pretty awesome. Tons of books in a homely little nook. It's one of my favorite places.
Food and Dining
This is at the Annapolis campus not the New Mexico, same school, different locations: The food in the dining hall is varied and of good quality. It isn't gourmet but there is a wide selection. When I visited for lunch they were making Greek omelets on demand and had a nice selection of salads, pastas, fruits and veggies as well as main courses. Of course there are vegan and vegetarian options and the school can accommodate any dietary restrictions, as if the case with almost every school. You select a meal plan and receive an ID card that gets you into your dorm and into the dining hall. You can also charge to it books from their wonderful bookstore or at the smallish cafe they have. At the cafe there are smoothies, some pre-made sushi and sandwiches, etc. Annapolis is beautiful and right by the water. There are many nice restaurant there and a great town-like atmosphere to boot.
Dorm Life
I'm not attending St. Johns yet but I did the overnight stay, and stayed in one of the guest dorms. The normal dorms are average. They're just dorms. The official website of the college outlines what furniture is included and what one might bring. There are plenty of extracurricular to choose from and a diverse community to become acquainted with. It's a small community dedicated to bettering themselves through inquiry.
Academic Rigor
The mandatory programme involves the in-depth reading and discussion of the Great Books. Some of the most essential and difficult works ever written. The Great Books are read across the curriculum. French, Ancient Greek, music theory/composition, the sciences, Euclid geometry and other maths are all required along with seminar and the Friday lecture which basically everyone attends.
Tips for prospective students
Research the school well. It's a very small and specific school with an all mandatory curriculum and a high level of academic work expected. Therefore, research the school throughly before committing, so you know what to expect. There is a very interesting memoir called Racing Odysseus by a college president who spent a semester as a Freshman (at age 62) at St. Johns Annapolis. He writes from the unique perspective of a college professor amongst 18-19 year old freshman but provides insight into the academic and social lives of Johnnies.
In three sentences
A place to expand ones mind. To question every facet of our existence. To read, write, think, engage oneself and each other, asking the Big Questions.
Poseidon from Santa Fe, NM
Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus.
3 out of 3 people found this review useful. 4 of 7
Categories Comments Great for these types of students
One who loves to read (and I mean loves as in does not go anywhere without at least one book). One who likes to think, but more importantly, likes to ask questions. Folks who take their education seriously; missing classes is a big no-no here. One who's smart, but not conceited about it. Curiosity is a big plus. One who's able to grasp (or at least grapple with) big ideas, even when uncomfortable. One who likes to think earnestly and deeply about difficult concepts, while still maintaining a sense of humor. And one who likes and agrees with the St. John's style of education (this is critical, hence the importance of the visit).
Tips for prospective students
Most importantly, visit! The college is unique enough that a visit while it is in session is, in my opinion, critical to deciding if you would like it there. Call the admissions office 2-3 weeks ahead of time to schedule. They put together a fantastic two-day visit package that includes spending a night in the dorms, an informal meeting with a tutor (there are no professors per se), and sitting in on three or four classes. (Tips on auditing classes: you can listen, but you can't speak or sit at the table. Read the assigned seminar readings ahead of time so you can follow the discussion.) The tutors and admissions folks are very nice and laid-back, so there is no need to be stressed about the interviews. Also, be sure to talk to as many students as possible. If you can, consider attending the Summer Academy for high school students. It's a good opportunity to experience participating in classes and living on campus for a whole week. Also, if you're a high school student in Santa Fe, you can attend any of their community seminars for free. (Those are mainly populated by older adults -- often veterans of the graduate program -- and the dynamic is a bit different, but they also let you get a feel for Johnnie methodology.)
Bang for the buck
Expensive. Very expensive. However, financial aid seems remarkably liberal and helpful, so don't get turned off by the sticker price, since you will almost certainly be paying less than that. Also, the college has just started a $7500 grant for all New Mexico resident freshman, regardless of need. Importantly, almost all of the seniors or recent graduates I have spoken to have told me that the experience was absolutely 100% worth it. Some have wished they could go do it all again, or that the program was longer than 4 years. Also: the college does not offer any scholarships or aid based on merit. If you think you will need additional aid beyond what the school and the government will award, you will need to find outside money.
Will enjoy being here
The campus is cozy, quiet, and in a great location at the foot of a mountain. The students, faculty, and staff are, in my experience, almost universally friendly and reasonable, intelligent people. Santa Fe itself is a beautiful, eclectic little city, with an extensive arts scene and activities for almost every type of person (though I speak as a devoted native :D ). It is NOT, however, your typical college town. Nightlife is generally nonexistent, or expensive beyond the means of college students. The campus social scene itself seems very nice -- though my experience in that field is limited thus far. Students I've talked to say that most people can find their niche, and end up with a group of close friends. (Roommate selection is excellently done from what I hear.) However, the report is that the campus can be a bit insular at times, so an occasional escape into town or beyond is useful for maintaining a sane balance.
Will learn a lot
The expanse of what one will study at St. John's is impressive by itself: ancient Greek, Euclidean geometry, Shakespeare, Greek tragedies, parts of Western history, French language and literature, Ptolemaic astronomy, calculus, great novels, seminal experiments in physics, biology, and chemistry ... not to mention almost every prominent Western philosopher from 500 B.C. through our own era. But how this study is conducted is probably even more important. Every current student I have spoken to has said that their St. John's experience has made them a far, far better communicator, in all four facets of communication: writing, reading, speaking, and listening. For me personally, I'm expecting to learn a great deal about what it means to be a human being -- far more than I would learn at any other college.
Isabel from Converse, TX
Reviewer is A current student here.
4 out of 4 people found this review useful. 5 of 7
Categories Comments Great for these types of students
Analytical thinkers, curious minds, passionate about learning itself instead of only learning about certain things, students passionate about communicating their ideas and hearing new ideas all the time, students who are good at reading and comprehending works (not to say that you won't improve a shit-ton on this if you come here), students who think it's better to have an exclusive and personal review of your performance rather than just getting grades based on tests and exams, students who believe in this sort of education
Tips for prospective students
Talk to the students and tutors; that's a great way to actually find out what you're in for here. Also, really explore the campus. Don't be scared. Wander around the classroom buildings if you get the chance. Check out the fine arts bulidings, cause every room has a piano and a few have sheet music laying around. Also, one room tends to have several other insstruments... not that I know that. Check out the library too, we have a pretty cool selection if you ask me. Admittedly it may not be the largest, but I feel it's pretty diverse. On top of that, I think a lot of the books in our library are representative of the types of topics that are focused on here at campus. Every program book is available in the library, and many books about topics related are there as well. If you like the books in the library, it could be a small sign that this campus has got the right vibe for you. But anyway, I really encourage you to talk to some students and tutors. Also check out all the buildings you can, and imagine waking up to this every morning for several months a year. Also check out the swing and lookout point.
Bang for the buck
Of course it's extremely expensive! You need to believe in this education to be here, and definitely to pay for here. However, if you really want to be here, there are a multitude of options to help pay. The financial aid assistance, from my experience, was very good. We're talking 30,000 grants. Of course, it all depends on your aid package. But the fin-aid office people WILL work with you. They try very hard to do what they can and work with you and your situation, and deadlines are importan of course, but (like the rest of the campus) they are human beings who consider you as such and don't just cut you off and give up on you if you miss some stupid deadline. They will work with you. Another thing, also, is that there are several short-term job opportunities, and so far, always some sort of job opportunity. Of course having a car is extremely helpful for keeping your job options open. Work-study is also sort of difficult to get since there are not that many students here. There are few jobs because of the size of the campus, so you have to turn your fin aid info in AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. But there is always a work option. There's tons of people nearby who offer really good jobs at their houses, watching their kids, dog-walking, cleaning, etc... and we live in one of the richest areas of Santa Fe, so we're talking a bunch of wealthy folks who can give you easy jobs for pretty good hourly wages.
Am enjoying being here
I mostly love being here; sometimes of course the campus can be overwhelming because of its size and the lack of nightlife in Santa Fe; but overall, it's not very difficult to get off campus. The bus is like 2 or 3 bucks for a round-trip into town and back. You can also buy monthly or yearly or poly-monthly passes. And as far as the lack of nightlife goes, the campus itself has its own sort of nightlife, since we are indeed one of the few places of concentration of young people here. Santa Fe is beautiful though; especially the sky is. Every night the sunset is just as enchanting and captivating, yet totally unique of the previous and the following day. Not to mention the air up here I think feels pretty comparatively clean from most other places. And mountain hiking is quite fun.
Am learning a lot
I'm ALWAYS learning... both the curriculum and the lifestyle of this campus are stimulating and dynamic. There is usually some sort of event going on; there are tons of options with intramurals, and there's a huge array of individuals. Classes always manage to turn over my brain-- the Dead Poets Society (film) standing on tables at the end is symbolic of the mentality of this campus. The idea is to look at things from endless perspectives and squeeze all the truth and growth out of them as you can. It's great. So far every tutor has been very good to excellent; they are all very intelligent, if I have a right to judge, if not brilliant.
Reviewer is A current student here.
4 out of 4 people found this review useful. 6 of 7
Categories Comments Great for these types of students
Talkative type, loves reading,
Tips for prospective students
Tour the college while it's in session and sit in on a few classes. DON'T SPEAK IN ANY TUTORIALS OR SEMINARS.
Bang for the buck
You can be a Classics major at most schools (or, even join a book club) and still read the same books we do at St. John's. Will you come to the same realizations and have an entire community with the same common ground, no. If finances are a struggle, you may consider another school.
Am enjoying being here
Priding itself on community involvement and communication, there are a lot of cons, namely an inflated ego as a result of esoteric readings. Sports and a lot of other extracurricular activities are not offered here, though the option to create a student group is encouraged (though funding may not always be available).
Am learning a lot
Despite no exams, text books, professors and grades being a selling point for the College, there is a lot to stress about. St. John's is a community of intellectuals, some pompous and overly assertive, some truly engaged in learning in a communal effort. It's what you make of it. There's enough reading each day that learning a lot is guaranteed.
Nancy from Los Angeles, CA
Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus.
3 out of 3 people found this review useful. 7 of 7
Categories Comments Great for these types of students
Anyone who feels that math is there weak point: this is YOUR school. Also, anyone who likes to discuss and think and meet people who think radically, this school is perfect.
Tips for prospective students
Start getting to know the admissions/financial aid officers now, before you leave everything to the last minute and end up stressing over too much.
Bang for the buck
The school is very small, and if you don't have too much money to spend around, you should really work on what money goes into this school otherwise look elsewhere, because this education is very different from other schools, and I guess if you really feel like this is your school, apart from the money, you'll find a way.
Will enjoy being here
It is pretty far from where I live, I don't know how I will adjust to how far away from home it is, but the people there are really nice, and calm about everything that goes on. I think that I will soon learn to live comfortably there.
Will learn a lot
I think that St. John's has a lot to offer with its great curriculum it goes from Greek history up to modern history, and it links every form of study with philosophy which makes the learning there totally different from any other kind of learning elsewhere.


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Like domino wrote, I only got one ntfs partition, my Lacie external usbdrive
Building on Ubuntu using [pbuilder]
Other resources [Upgrading from CVS, Gaim2, Anjuta, Rhythmbox]
@ givre, my fstab looks like:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/Windows ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=andrew 0 0
Thanks for the quick reply btw
It's looks like your windows partion is not mounted. Try
Code:sudo mount /dev/sda5
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STOP Using ntfs-3g - if u don't want ur data corrupted
i got my data corrupted by using ntfs-3g driver in Ubuntu ...
i just wanted delete a directory in a ntfs partition and was prompted by nautilus that i can't delete a non-empty directory. however after deleting all files in that directoy, i found i still could not delete it and got an error. then i changed to windowsXP, also got similar errors when to delete, move or rename it.
here's the error dialog box. it says "can't delete xxxxx(name of the directory): the file or directoy is mangled and can't be read. "
maybe ntfs-3g really has "capable for unlimited file creation and deletion" ,but not for directory operation.
sorry for my poor English
Last edited by superiori; July 21st, 2006 at 08:01 PM.
@domino&Poka64 and for all other who want to try.
I found by reading the man, that we can pass a debuging option to pmount, that will show how pmount call the mount function. That's could be very helpfull if you try that
and post here the output. You will see something like thatCode:pmount -d /dev/sd*
check that /media/sda1 does not exist. If it exist, delete it and retry.Code:Filesystem: 'ntfs-3g' spawnv(): executing /bin/mount '/bin/mount' '-t' 'ntfs-3g' '-o' 'silent,async,atime,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=007' '/dev/sda1' '/media/sda1'
Thank you so much
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will do givré. In vista right now looking for an excuse to nuke it.
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. These are my daily operations with ntfs-3g. I have an ext drive which i don't always have on and mounted. I have a 5gig FAT32 drive that I download all my hosting files and folders, hosting weekly backups, and a few hunder mb of torrents. When my 5gig FAT drive is filled, I move them to my ntfs ext drive. Before I move them, I delete old files and folders and replace them with the ones contained on the FAT32 partition. Not a single error so far. You can also look back a few pages and see benchmarks that were posted. I hope my luck continues.


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The Internet has been buzzing with talk about the new reforms that the European Union is making to its data protection standards. Of particular interest to family history researchers is the proposed "right to be forgotten." In its most basic definition, this right is the right to have one's personal data deleted. For instance, upon your request an online entity such as Facebook would have to delete, entirely, your account and the information you placed online, not hold them in a state of virtual limbo as it does presently.
Much of the discussion about the right to be forgotten centers on two concerns: privacy rights and commercial interests. The European and American views on these two concerns differ, with the European courts seeming to lean towards ruling for the right to be forgotten. American law currently permits a more open personal data marketplace. However, as we have seen with the Social Security Death Index and many states' laws, concerns over the privacy of personal data is becoming an issue in the States as well.
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The other effects on family historians are more subtle. Could the right to disappear extend to our ancestors? Does data regarding life events and information belong to the person or the entity collecting the data? For example, is a baptismal record the property of the church or the baptised person or the community at large? Can the right be extended to the collection of personal data, i.e., could personal data be protected from being collected--a "right to not appear" as opposed to a "right to disappear?"
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1776 undergoes a significant format change this year-it
will join GrognardCon! Leveraging "Free Format" scheduling
allows classic wargamers to maximize their playing time while
enhancing schedule flexibility. A week of Swiss Elimination leads
to a final single elimination gauntlet for the top four beginning
on Thursday 7 Aug.
TIME LIMITS: Four hours per round with time clocks
(supplied by the GM if necessary.) Each player will begin the
game with 90 minutes on the clock to use for movement. The clocks
are not used for initial set up and the combat phases. Once the
time has run out, a player can no longer move, although he may
still attack. When the red flag drops at 12:00, time has run
CLASS: Beginners welcome. All players, regardless of
experience, are welcome to play, but the game will only be taught
at the beginner's session on Tuesday at 5 PM.
FORMAT: Free Format, Swiss Elimination leading
to 4-player single elimination.
SCENARIO: All rounds will be the first nine months
of the Campaign Game. The players will bid for the British side.
Both players roll one die and the player with the higher die
roll starts the bidding. If the die rolls are tied, re-roll until
one player gets a higher roll. The winner of the die roll then
bids the number of strategic towns he will control as the British
side to obtain victory. The opposing player must then beat that
bid if he wants to play the British side. The players continue
to bid in turn until one of the players no longer wants to bid.
The player with the high bid then takes command of the British
units. The British player wins by controlling the number of strategic
towns bid at the end of the September 1776 American turn; the
American player wins if the British player controls fewer towns
than the bid. For victory conditions only, Montreal and Quebec
both count as strategic towns for a total of 24 possible strategic
towns in the game. All optional rules except inverted and decoy
counters will be used.
Additional details are available at the GM maintained web
site at www.avalonhillclassics.com.
is a special Pre-Con consisting of an amalgam of ten of the old
classic hex-style wargames under the watchful eye of GM Bruno
Sinigaglio:Afrika Korps, Anzio, Bulge '81,Gettysburg, Panzerblitz,
Panzergruppe Guderian, the Russian Campaign,Waterloo, Wooden
Ships & Iron Men and 1776. All ten use the Free
Format scheduling device which allows players to schedule preliminary
games at their convenience. Play as many or as few preliminary
games as you like but only your best three results in each game
will determine the four finalists to advance to Single Elimination
play at the end of the week. Each event will be turned over to
its own GM on Tuesday for resolution in the normal manner - the
only difference is that participation in Grognardcon gives you
four additional days to qualify with prelim games in the events
of your choice. Grognardcon is free to Tribune level members
and subject to an additional fee for all others.
1. WBC FREE FORM FORMAT. This tournament uses a Swiss
Elimination format for the preliminary rounds followed by a Single
Elimination format for the four players with the best performances
during the Swiss segment. Entrants may play multiple games during
the preliminary Swiss segment during the PRECON segment which
begins during the PRECON on Saturday, 2 August 2008, or during
the regular WBC segment which runs from Tuesday through Friday,
or both. Best performances will be determined as described below
in paragraph 9.
2. SCHEDULE. The schedule consists of three segments,
GROGNARD PRECON Swiss, CON Swiss and CON Playoffs (Semi-finals
and Final).
a. GROGNARD PRECON SWISS. The PRECON Swiss Segment
consists of four daily heats: Saturday 1400, Sunday 0900, Monday
0900 and Tuesday 0900. The PRECON Swiss Segment continues through
Tuesday, 1900 hours, 5 August 2008, whereupon the CON Swiss Segment
begins. Essentially, the PRECON Swiss Segment simply continues
unabated into WBC.
b. CON SWISS. The CON Swiss Segment consists of three
daily heats: Tuesday 1900, Wednesday 1000 and Thursday 0900.
The Swiss Segment ends on Thursday at 3PM, at which time the
four players with the best performances during the Swiss Segments
will advance into the Single Elimination Playoffs.
c. CON Playoffs. All games played during the Swiss
Segment, which includes the PRECON Swiss and the CON Swiss, will
be used to determine the four top players. The two-round playoffs
begin Thursday with the Semi-finals at 5:00 PM. The Final Championship
game follows Thursday at 9PM.
3. SUMMARY OF NEW CHANGES FOR THIS YEAR - participating
at the WBC as part of Grognardcon.
This Tournament uses a Swiss Elimination format for the preliminary
rounds followed by a Single Elimination format for the four players
with the best performances during the Swiss segment. Entrants
may play multiple games during the Swiss segment. Best performances
will be determined as described below in paragraph 9.
Each entrant may enter as many or few of the rounds as he wishes.
The results will be used in determining who advances to the finals.
You must present yourself at the kiosk during any round you wish
to join. Once you receive your pairing and match sheet, you have
until midnight to complete the game. Games must start no later
than five hours before the deadline each day.
Bidding has crept up to 14-15 towns with victory
often decided by a single town.
Four players from the Swiss segment will play in the two-round
single-elimination rounds. The semi-final round will begin at
5:00 PM Thursday. All entrants who wish to play in the elimination
rounds should be present for the announcement of rank and pairings.
Failure to be present for the start of the elimination rounds
(5:00PM Thursday) will be considered dropping out of the tournament.
The Final game will follow at 9:00 PM on Thursday.
a. All game results and player ratings will be posted and updated
as results are reported.
b. Performance ratings will be based upon the best three games
played by a participant.
c. Games in excess of the three best will not affect a player's
performance rating.
d. A player must play at least three games to advance to the
single elimination phase.
e. Performance ratings for a player will be obtained as follows:
(1) A player receives 10 points for a victory.
(2) A player receives 1 point for a loss.
(3) Bonus Points: A player earns 2 for each victory tallied by
an opponent that he defeats. All of a defeated opponents games
will qualify for the scoring of these bonus points. Exception:
rematched opponents score no bonus points.
Bonus Point Examples: Player A defeats player B. Player B has
two victories. Player A receives 4 bonus points for the two games
won by Player B during the Swiss segment. Note however, if Player
A and B play each other a second time, no bonus points will be
awarded regardless of who wins the rematch.
a. Head to head play is the 1st tiebreaker.
b. Points scored VERSUS mutual opponents is the 2nd tiebreaker.
c. Points scored BY mutual opponents is the 3rd tiebreaker.
d. Points scored BY all defeated opponents is the 4th tiebreaker.
e. Points scored BY all opponents is the 5th tiebreaker.
Entrants may play every day during the Swiss segment, if so desired.
Entrants may play multiple games during the Swiss segment.
The GM or his assistant(s) will provide a match sheet for each
game. You must present yourself at the kiosk during any round
you wish to join. Once you receive your pairing and match sheet,
you have until midnight to complete the game. Games must start
no later than five hours before the deadline each day. If
you wish to play more than one game in a day, the GM will attempt
to arrange more games for you subject to availability of opponents.
Each player will be given a match sheet. The match sheet will
list the game, opponent and start time. When opponents are assigned,
they must inform the GM when they will start their game and when
they expect to finish. If the players cannot agree on a reasonable
start time, they will be required to begin the game within one
If an assigned opponent does not show up for a mutually agreed
upon start time, the GM will forfeit the game to a player who
is waiting. The player who is waiting must alert the GM that
a forfeit is imminent within 15-minutes of the start time listed
on the match sheet. If the tardy opponent fails to appear, the
game will be forfeited to the player who is waiting at 20-minutes
past the start time on the match sheet. There is no deviation
from this procedure; therefore, if a waiting player alerts the
GM beyond the specified 15-minute alerting period-there will
be no forfeit-instead, the game will be cancelled.
The results of completed games should be reported to the GM as
soon as possible using the match sheet. If game results are not
reported to the GM by the end of a Swiss round (midnight) both
players will be credited with a loss. Exception: On days other
than Thursday-The GM will permit players to continue past midnight,
but they must inform the GM beforehand that they expect to finish
after the midnight deadline.
The GM (or assistant GM if the game involves the GM) reserves
the right to adjudicate any game at the end of the time limit
for the round. If one player is moving at a significantly slower
pace than the other, this will be taken into account in the adjudication.
WBC rules require submission of a Winner's Claim with the top
six players listed in order (although there may be no prizes
for some of these finishes for this event). At the end of the
Swiss, players will be ranked in order from 1 to 6. The final
5th & 6th places will be determined from these standings.
The GM will submit the results of ALL games played for inclusion
in the AREA ratings.
The four players with the best performance during the Swiss will
advance to a Single Elimination Semi-Final at 1700 on Thursday.
The 1st place finisher will play the 4th place finisher, and
the 2nd place finisher will play the 3rd place finisher. The
GM will post the match assignments for the semi-final at 1600
on Thursday. The Final championship game will follow at 9:00PM
on Thursday.
The GM will post the match assignments for the semi-finals by
1600 on Thursday. If players qualifying do not intend to participate,
they should alert the GM, so that lower ranked finishers may
be moved up to play in the single elimination segment on Thursday.
If any of the four players qualifying for the Semi-Final fail
to appear at the Kiosk by 1700, Thursday, they will be dropped
from further participation. Players who finished lower than 4th
in the Swiss segment may move into the Single Elimination rounds,
if they are present at the Kiosk on Thursday at 1700, when higher
rated no-shows are dropped.
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Ignore Basic Game Rule VI.E. on page 6 of the 2nd edition
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